University of Maryland

College Park MD. Flagship public research university of Maryland. R1. $3B+ annual research. Strong CS program — Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL, Ben Shneiderman) is birthplace of Spotfire and modern information visualization. Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2). Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS). Clark School of Engineering. Robert H. Smith School of Business. College Park Academy. 10 minutes from DC — deep DMV government/IC ecosystem connections. Christopher Ahlberg (Spotfire → Recorded Future) did foundational research here under Ben Shneiderman 1991-1993.